This is the Forward’s coverage of the 2023 judiciary reform effort and resultant crisis in Israel.
Judicial Overhaul
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Opinion I’m devastated by Israel’s judicial overhaul, but I’m still moving there
Israel needs us now more than ever
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Fast Forward After pivotal judicial reform vote, US Jewish groups unleash their newfound voices on Israeli domestic policy
Mainstream centrist organizations once reluctant to speak out about Israel’s internal deliberations were ready within hours, even minutes, of the vote to condemn the law
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Fast Forward White House calls passage of Israel’s first judicial reform bill ‘unfortunate’
U.S. lawmakers are also weighing in; Rep. Jerry Nadler called the vote 'a dark day for Israeli democracy'
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Culture ‘You just feel devastated; people are leaving in a state of complete depression’ — the view on the ground from a poet in Israel
Yudit Shahar is a veteran of many protests; she says this one feels different
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Opinion The Israel we know has fallen
The battle over the future of Israel — can it be both democratic and religious — goes on
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Fast Forward In Jerusalem, defiance and despair among protesters on fateful day for Israeli judicial reform
Bargur is one of thousands of Israelis who have crowded a park in this city in recent days, part of a last-ditch effort by protesters to stop Israel’s right-wing government from passing a law weakening Israel’s judiciary
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Fast Forward ‘When there is a crisis over there … we feel it viscerally here’: New Yorkers march in solidarity with Israeli protesters
A march over the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday coincided with massive protests in Jerusalem over efforts to dilute the power of the country’s judiciary
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Fast Forward Knesset votes on judicial overhaul, as violence ensues between protesters and police
Government ministers fighting over last-minute compromise
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News Synagogue arson suspect posted satirical antisemitic cartoon on day of the attack
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Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
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